No Dramas, Just Llamas🦙: Meta officially enters the AI ring

“At this point, our goal is not to compete with the open-source models.

“It’s to compete with everything out there and to be the leading AI in the world.”

There are no prizes for guessing where that quote came from—it was from Mark Zuckerberg about the arrival of Llama 3 on the weekend.

This upgrade is part of Meta's strategy to integrate its AI assistant across its platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and even directly into the Facebook feed.

You may have already noticed it.

But wait, there’s more—it’s also available in a similar format to the other LLMs over on https://meta.ai.

What differentiates Llama from the other models - like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc?

Apparently, Llama does it all—it works like the other large language models but can also perform real-time searches and generate images.

I decided to give it a little test this afternoon - and here is the result:

I wholeheartedly encourage you to play with the Llama, but I wouldn’t share any data - particularly business data.

You know where it goes.

Happy Hunting 🚀

PS When there’s a big announcement like this, OpenAI usually does whatever it can to steal the headlines. So…